BlueBook value ?
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I can't speak for blue book, but if I were shopping the used market, I'd expect to pay somewhere between $400 on the very low end and $550 on the high end. Much more than that and all of a sudden you can buy a brand new gun for the same price. There's just not that "collectible" status on most guns, so value runs about 60-80% of original retail.
The .257 Roberts is a fairly sought after chambering at the moment. I would agree with Dubyam that $550 is about the top as you can get a new Hawkeye around the $600 mark. I would put the bottom end a little higher though (~$500) due to the desirability of the Roberts.
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DrMike
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Sounds like a deal. Give us a picture of your treasure when you get a chance.
cloverleaf
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I would call that a good deal. Let us know how things progress. CL
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That's the best deal on a rifle you can get - good feelings, bringing a new hunter into the family, and helping a young person remember one of their family members doing something they loved. You're a good man, Wis65x55. If I run up on a 257Bob in a Ruger, I'll let you know.
DrMike
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Wis65x55,
I doubt that there is anyone on this board that isn't pulling for you as you mentor your niece on her hunt next year. The 257 Bob would be a great one for a young hunter. Among other rifles I've purchased for my grandchildren is a Model 7 CDL chambered in 257 Roberts.
I doubt that there is anyone on this board that isn't pulling for you as you mentor your niece on her hunt next year. The 257 Bob would be a great one for a young hunter. Among other rifles I've purchased for my grandchildren is a Model 7 CDL chambered in 257 Roberts.
Teknys
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Good move!! :grin: You'll reap more with this act.
My first real rifle was an 06, but I was shooting a .257 prior to that. We had two of them in the family for quite some time. I traded my last one away just a couple of months ago. Great cartridge, specially for small game and deer, I myself killed a couple of deer with one. The 117 PT was deadly on them. The modest recoil is great for tender shoulders. You may have to modify the stock for a proper fit.
Elkman":3t8r1ek5 said:
What about a 7X57 Mauser Bill? How do you think it'll work for "tender shoulders"?
I am thinking one young feller is going to have a great Christmas! Hopefully his tender little shoulders can handle that massive recoil from that little Featherweight! Scotty
DrMike
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Both the 257 Roberts and the 7mm Mauser are excellent cartridges for young shooters. When they are found in a stock that fits the younger frame, it is difficult to imagine a finer cartridge with which to embark on a lifetime of hunting.
Oldtrader3
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I have mentored several kids in my family and now have remarried, a few years ago, and have a whole new family to mentor and get started as shooters and hunters, both kids and adults. Even if the adults are not going to hunt, they will help support their kids getting started shooting. If we don't do this, our treasured tradition will go the way of the passenger pigeon. Especially with many school teachers who have been brainwashed themselves and are so mindlessly sure of their agenda to have have villanized my sport to my own children through their insidious meddling, political correctness and revisionist history. This is particularly so at Parochial school where even I paid these cretins to poison my kids against guns and hunting.
nvbroncrider
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Your going to fall in love with that one. Got one just like it shoots like a dream. IMR-4895 is the powder for it. It will do anything a 6mm will do but better with more versatillity with bullet weights.
